MADRID, 6 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal has assured that he feels the situation that the world number one is going through, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, isolated in a hotel while deciding whether to deny him entry into Australia, and has explained that although it is ” free to make your own decisions “must know that everything has” consequences. “
“I think if he wanted to, he would be playing here in Australia without any problem. He made his own decisions and everyone is free to make their own decisions, but then there are some consequences,” he said at a press conference.
A few hours ago, the Australian government prevented Djokovic, a nine-time winner of the Australian Open, from entering the country by not having his visa in order and “not complying” with the medical exemption for which he had been authorized the day before to compete. the ‘Aussie’ Open, the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the season.
According to Nadal, who recently passed the coronavirus but was authorized to compete at Melbourne Park, it would have made Djokovic’s life easier to have been vaccinated. “It is normal for people here in Australia to feel very frustrated with the case because they have been through a lot of very tough lockdowns and a lot of people have not been able to go home,” he said.
“The only thing I can say is that I believe what people who know about medicine say, and if people say we have to get vaccinated, we have to get vaccinated,” he said. “I went through COVID-19. I have been vaccinated twice. If you do this, you have no problem playing here. The world, in my opinion, has suffered too much not to follow the rules,” he added.
Even so, the Spaniard regrets what Djokovic is going through. “Of course, I do not like the situation that is happening. In some way, I feel sorry for him. But at the same time, he knew the conditions for many months, so he makes his own decision,” he concluded.